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The Long-Awaited, Enormously Entertaining Memoir by One of the Great Artists of Our Time—Now a New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publisher's Weekly Bestseller. In this candid and often hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and actor offers a comprehensive, personal look at his tumultuous life. Beginning with his Brooklyn childhood and his stint as a writer for the Sid Caesar variety show in the early days of television, working alongside comedy greats, Allen tells of his difficult early days doing standup before he achieved recognition and success. With his unique storytelling pizzazz, he recounts his departure into moviemaking, with such slapstick comedies as Take the Money and Run, and revisits his entire, sixty-year-long, and enormously productive career as a writer and director, from his classics Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Hannah and Her Sisters to his most recent films, including Midnight in Paris. Along the way, he discusses his marriages, his romances and famous friendships, his jazz playing, and his books and plays. We learn about his demons, his mistakes, his successes, and those he loved, worked with, and learned from in equal measure. This is a hugely entertaining, deeply honest, rich and brilliant self-portrait of a celebrated artist who is ranked among the greatest filmmakers of our time.
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"As if coping with the ravages of a global pandemic hasn't made life unpleasant enough, now we've all got to talk about Woody Allen."
"His friends should have warned him that Apropos of Nothing is incredibly, unbelievably tone deaf on the subject of women ..."
"Again, that's your choice ..."
"The sense of sub-journalistic carelessness is heightened by a series of weird repetitions ..."
"a long, nearly 400-page, disjointed ramble intended primarily for boomers who will recognize Allen's name-dropping of celebrities whose paths he's crossed since the mid-20th century."
"Apropos of Nothing is filled with vivid detail about the movies and the producers, directors and actors with whom Allen worked ..."
"Allen argues correctly that he has spent decades writing many strong leading roles for actresses, but it's a shame he has a tin-eared tendency to define them by their looks ..."
"Leave aside, if you can, the question of whether Woody Allen ought to be canceled and consider, instead, whether he's simply gone stale."
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